Religious News Service Photographs

Primary tabs

About this Collection

Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

Search In

For

Title:
Rights leaders pushed off road.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-34393 RIGHTS LEADERS PUSHED OFF ROAD HERNANDO, Miss. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negro civil rights leaders, are pushed off the road at they resume a voters march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Mr. Meredith was short from ambush by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage Negro voting in the state’s primary election. Religious leaders were quick to condemn the shooting and called for greater efforts in behalf of Negro voting rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-6B-66-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hernando., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hernando., Voter registration--Mississippi., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., African American clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., Police--Mississippi--Hernando.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Hernando (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358344
Title:
21 white men arrested in slaying of rights workers.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31898 21 WHITE MEN ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF RIGHTS WORKERS MERIDIAN, Miss. -- Miss Esther Carter (seated), U.S. Commissioner, arraigns 18 of the 21 white men arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the slaying of three civil rights workers last June 21 near Philadelphia, Miss. In the group -- said to include many members of the Ku Klux Klan -- was Edgar Ray Killen, described as a fundamentalist Free Will Baptist minister and part-time farmer and sawmill worker. Also arrested were Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey (front row, in open officer’s jacket) and his deputy, Cecil Price. The arraignment was at the Naval Air Base near Meridian, Miss. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination., Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964--Assassination., Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964--Assassination., Carter, Esther., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Killen, Edgar Ray., Rainey, Lawrence A., Price, Cecil.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Arraignment--Mississippi--Meridian., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Meridian Naval Air Station (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356691
Title:
Mississippi civil rights inquiry opens.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-32138 MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS INQUIRY OPENS JACKSON, Miss. -- A long-proposed inquiry into denial of voting rights and the administration of justice to Negroes in Mississippi was opened in Jackson by the six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission, which includes Father Theodore M. Hesburgh (right), president of the University of Notre Dame. The sessions were called to order by Dr. John A. Hannah (second from left), commission chairman and president of Michigan State University. Other commission members shown are Dean Erwin N. Griswold of Harvard University’s Law School and Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman, associate general counsel of the St. Louis Housing and Land Clearance Authorities. Other members present, but now [sic] shown here, were Eugene Patterson, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and vice-chairman of the commission, and Robert S. Rankin of the department of political science at Duke University. One of the first witnesses to appear at the hearings was Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson, who declared that state leaders were trying to deal with the civil rights issue “free of demagoguery.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-2B-65-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States Commission on Civil Rights., Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015., Catholic Church--Clergy., University of Notre Dame--Faculty., Hannah, John A., 1902-1991., Michigan State University--Faculty., Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904-1994., Harvard Law School--Faculty., Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018., Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (St. Louis, Mo.), Saint Louis County (Mo.). Housing Authority., Patterson, Eugene C. (Eugene Corbett), 1923-2013., Rankin, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1899-1976., Duke University--Faculty., Patterson, Joe T., 1907-1969.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Governmental investigations--United States., Civil rights--Mississippi--Jackson., Attorneys general--Mississippi.
Geographic subjects:
Jackson (Miss.), Mississippi--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355944
Title:
Christmas service in new Mississippi church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31974 CHRISTMAS SERVICE IN NEW MISSISSIPPI CHURCH RIPLEY, Miss. -- A group of northern college students, calling themselves “Carpenters for Christmas,” paused with members of the congregation of the Negro Antioch Baptist church near Ripley, Miss., for Christmas services. The church, burned to the ground Oct. 30 after a civil rights rally was held there, was reconstructed during the holiday weeks by the volunteer student group. The paster of the congregation, the Rev. John R. McDonald, preaches the Christmas sermon to the church members and students, who later put the roof on the new structure and rushed to complete the interior before returning to their campuses. Most of the volunteer carpenters were from Oberlin (Ohio) College. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12E-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Ripley, Miss.), McDonald, John R., Oberlin College--Students., Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students., University of Massachusetts (System)--Students., Yankton College--Students., Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Students.
Topics:
College students--Mississippi--Ripley., African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley., Civil rights movements--United States., Clergy--Mississippi--Ripley., African American clergy--Mississippi--Ripley., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Ripley., Christmas service--Mississippi--Ripley.
Geographic subjects:
Ripley (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355918
Title:
Northern students rebuild burned Mississippi church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31963 NORTHERN STUDENTS REBUILD BURNED MISSISSIPPI CHURCH RIPLEY, Miss. -- A group of “Carpenters for Christmas” -- students from five colleges in Northern states -- lay the foundation for reconstruction of the Antioch Baptist church, a Negro sanctuary burned to the ground at Ripley, Miss., after a civil rights meeting was held there. The young builders, mostly from Oberlin (O.) College but also from Northwestern University, the University of Massachusetts, Yankton (S.D.) College and Washington University in Missouri, gave their two-week Christmas holidays to the project. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Ripley, Miss.), Oberlin College--Students., Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students., University of Massachusetts (System)--Students., Yankton College--Students., Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Students.
Topics:
College students--Mississippi--Ripley., African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley., Civil rights movements--United States., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Ripley., Arson--Mississippi--Ripley., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Ripley., Voluntarism--Mississippi--Ripley.
Geographic subjects:
Ripley (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355917

Bookmark

BookBags: